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October 10, 2025Open Access

Validation of the Brief Oral Health Habits Scale in Children from Cuenca

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PAPedro Andrés Muñoz ArteagaMRMariela Ramírez-VelasquezMAMónica Beatríz Dávila Arcentales

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Overview

Exploratory analysis validates oral health assessment tool for children, indicating its reliability and usefulness.

Key Points

  • The Brief Oral Health Habits Scale shows adequate psychometric properties in assessing children's oral health habits, supporting its use in evaluations.
  • Factor analysis identified a unidimensional factor, streamlining the scale to four key items for better validity and reliability.
  • Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega demonstrated acceptable internal consistency, making this scale reliable for the target population.
  • High fit indices in confirmatory factor analysis further suggest the scale's robust performance in measuring oral health habits in children.

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Arteaga et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e861907ef2f04ca37e40a2https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202510.0235.v1
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